After the one hundred and one now new sect disciples of Sword River Association outer court have rested enough.
They were directed by the older disciple to deep within the Wyrm mountain range.
They walked ten kilometers deep into the tall forest before they saw a large clearing of an enormous size.
In the clearing, there were buildings in it. The size of the clearing can reach up to fifteen kilometers.
What amazed the crowd was the transparent blue-colored barrier that surrounded the fifteen-kilometer clearing.
The barrier covered the entirety of the clearing. From the sky to the ground. There was no boundary it didn't cover. It circled the clearing
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Zeron and the youth were standing before the bluish barrier.
Zeron had a thought.
(This barrier has the same feeling as Kobe's trump card)
(The only difference is that my instinct is telling me that this one here is a hundred times stronger than Cobe's)
As Zeron was thinking of how strong the barrier could be, and how much strength is required to break it.
The sect disciple that was leading them took out a token and raised it. Showing it towards the barrier.
The token shined a blue light, which made the barrier open in the middle. Allowing the sect disciple and the new disciples to enter.
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"The name of our sect is Sword River Association"
"I believe most of you would know that"
"But what you did not know is that our sect is just an outer court branch of the main sect".
"The main sect spreads its branches to different regions. We are the Sundai region branch"
"Can we go to the main sect".
Someone among the new disciples asked.
It was a fourteen-year-old boy and one of the twelve high-class spirit roots. From his clothing, you would see he came from a wealthy home.
The disciple who was leading them as he explained the sect, looked at the young boy and sighed
"Since the establishment of the Sundai region outer court a thousand years ago, only one person has passed the inner court test"
He shook his head with a sorrowful, mocking expression as he said that.
"Ahhh!!"
All the new disciples were shocked.
Zeron was surprised by how difficult it was to enter the inner court.
Imagine that every year accepts a hundred disciples. Counting the number of disciples in one thousand years would be a hundred thousand.
And among these hundred thousand, only one could pass the test. The difficulty is too high.
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The sect disciple led them to where they would register as a disciple.
He explained the rules of the sect and the use of different infrastructure to the new disciples.
He took them to where they registered as a sect disciple in the admin hall, where they were then directed to the resource hall to collect their new entry pack.
Which is the sect uniform. A white classical robe that has a sword design.
The robe might not seem impressive, but it was made from a pre-awaken silkworm, which made it impervious to mortal weapons and fire and water.
The other starter pack items were 100 gold coins, a third-tier treasured weapon, a disciple token that can be used to record contribution points and unlock infrastructure, and a cultivation manual of the body tempering rank.
After coming out of the resource hall. The new disciple was shown towards their accommodation.
There were two tiers of accommodation for the sect disciples' which were the elite tier and the normal tier.
The superior quality spirit roots and high-class spirit roots individuals stay at the elite tier.
While low-quality spirit root, which makes up the majority, stays at the normal tier.
The difference between them was that the elite tier accommodation had a Tier 2 Qi gathering formation, while the normal tier was a Tier 1 Qi gathering formation.
A Tier 2 Qi gathering formation is ten times the efficiency of a Tier 1's. So the people in the elite tier cultivate faster than those in the normal tier
But those in the normal tier are not without hope to join the elite tier.
It was because at the year-end gathering. The last five positions in the elite tier will be swapped with the best five positions of the normal tier.
But this does not concern most of the normal tier new disciples.
It only concerned the elite tier because a year later, they would have to fight to keep their placement in the elite tier from older students.
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Zeron was sitting in his home in the elite tier. In the elite tier, everyone has one house each, which includes a living room, kitchen, bathroom, training fields, and such.
The newcomers are not assigned a servant. Even most of the seniors do not have servants.
It is only elders and disciples who have broken through to the third rank would be allowed to have servants.
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Zeron stood up from his seat and went to an inner chamber where he lit up an incense.
The incense makes you stay in a peak meditation mood.
He opened the cultivation manual which on the cover read 'Sword River Body Tempering Rank Manual'
He read the instructions and memorized the breathing exercises, compared them to the one on the comprehension test, and saw the difference.
The one at the comprehension test is only the simplified version that has only the skin refining stage.
While this one has more detailed information on skin refining and the rest of the stages.
Zeron took in a deep breath as he sat cross-legged and started breathing according to the set of procedures.
He has now finally started his cultivation journey.